It is clear that the most Iberian suspense genre places its most disturbing plots in the north of the peninsula. Since Dolores Redondo but also Michael Santiago o Victor of the Tree. To name some of the most notorious. With Angela Banzas This trend is confirmed when looking out over leafy northern forests or steep Cantabrian cliffs.
A point of dark melancholy that is rooted in the atavistic but is also projected towards reflections of souls in tune with the misty. Because it is not only about aiming for the blackest genre but also that we are presented with mysteries when not thrillers that can assail us from the scenery itself to the sensations of the protagonists.
Everyone has a past or is on a quest. The vital as a plot excuse to tackle plots that end up fitting perfectly with its double aspect. The case of turn to discover and the hectic almost existential search in the middle of spaces ventilated by mists that make the skin stand on end and confuse reason...
Ángela Banzas has been able to provide that new look always necessary to a trend that hooks readers eager for proposals that bring us closer to circadian rhythms obscured by mere geography and the evolution of the plot…
Top 3 recommended novels by Ángela Banzas
The shadow of the Rose
Mystery and the noir genre always blend perfectly with stories that come and go from past to present and future. Because the great secrets, the victims who still seem to move through certain spaces like souls awaiting justice, move stories between times with a hint of fascination towards the historical as overwhelming experiences...
Cortegada Island, 1910. The discovery of the body of a girl on the day of the massacre generates great shock among the inhabitants of the estuary due to the circumstances and the atrocity of the crime. One culprit, the poet Guillermo de Foz. A sentence, death by garrote.
Armenteira Monastery, Pontevedra, 2002. The restoration works of the cloister bring to light an unpublished notebook with the confession of the cursed writer Guillermo de Foz. Antía Fontán, professor of Literature at the Sorbonne, will travel to Galicia to carry out a study on this discovery. What she doesn't know is that her stay will transcend the professional. There she will discover a story of love and death, sinister interests and she will find herself involved in a series of murders perpetrated by a criminal mastermind who follows the modus operandi of the fallen angels of literature. The nicknamed Rose Killer seems to have only one recipient: her.
After the success of The Silence of the Waves and The Fog Conspiracy, the writer Ángela Banzas displays her narrative virtuosity and offers us a puzzle in which the tension increases with each page. The Shadow of the Rose is an agile novel, full of resonances and effects, that explores the root of evil and connects us with the dark side of love and the bloodiest side of universal literature. Shadows, roses and thorns.
The silence of the waves
The oneiric and the residual messages that barely last when you wake up. Except when they cling to memory with a sense of compelling consideration. From the usual consideration of dreams as something more than a mental reset, we discover a fantastic story.
Adela Roldán, married with a son, leads a peaceful family life except for a recurring nightmare that has disturbed her since she was just a girl. In it she sees how a young woman is murdered in the presence of her young daughter. When she wakes up she doesn't remember anything else, until one night she identifies the name of the town where everything happens: Vilar de Fontao, in Galicia. She decides to travel there and check if the house where the horrible crime takes place exists. What Adela does not know is that she, in reality, will embark on a journey of more than a hundred years that will take her from a country house on the Costa da Morte to the city of Santiago de Compostela. A journey in which he will seek to discover the truth without knowing that he is approaching a secret that some are trying to reveal and that others want to preserve.
Showing off a style full of resonances and evocative images, Ángela Banzas masterfully constructs a novel that connects the history of several generations of women who must overcome adversity, betrayal, pain and fear, while continuing to fight with passion for what they believe in at a time marked by rural classism, hunger and war, factions, mistrust and death.
The conjuring of the mist
Everything is carried away by the mist. Waiting for him to finish returning it as the sky returns to its usual place at the top of the dome. But sometimes the worst happens and the nebulous jaws end up becoming a bad omen that takes on the appearance of a devastating reality...
The disappearance of a teenager shakes the small town of Illa de Cruces. There the judge Elena Casas will take charge of the investigation of the case despite ignoring that this event is connected to the disappearance of her mother's sister, her aunt Melisa de ella. A mystery from thirty years ago that a woman admitted to a psychiatric hospital and the old healer of the island will keep the keys to solve.
After the success of The Silence of the Waves, Ángela Banzas builds a vibrant story in which crimes, intrigues and family secrets coexist with popular beliefs and superstitions against the backdrop of the Ría de Arousa. A Galician landscape featuring the sea and a leafy laurel forest where stone crosses guard terrible secrets that the fog wants to hide.
